Stockholm Municipality facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Stockholm Municipality Stockholms kommun
Municipality
Stockholm City Hall
Coat of arms Logotype
Country	Sweden
County	Stockholm County
Seat	Stockholm
Area
• Total	216.237289 km2 (83.489684 sq mi)
• Land	188.057289 km2 (72.609325 sq mi)
• Water	28.18 km2 (10.88 sq mi)
	Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population  (June 30, 2012)
• Total	837,031
• Density	3,870.8911/km2 (10,025.562/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Uppland and Södermanland
Municipal code	0180

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm (Swedish: Stockholms kommun or Stockholms stad) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It has the largest population of the 290 municipalities of the country, but one of the smallest areas, making it the second most densely populated. It is also the most populous municipality in the Nordic countries.

Although legally a municipality with the official proper name Stockholms kommun, the municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) has decided to use the name Stockholms stad (City of Stockholm in English) whenever possible. This is purely nominal and has no effect on the legal status of the municipality.

Geographically, the city comprises the Stockholm City Centre and two suburban areas, Söderort (South Stockholm) and Västerort (West Stockholm). Administratively, it is subdivided into 14 districts (sometimes incorrectly called "boroughs" in English), which are administered by district councils (stadsdelsnämnder).

History

When the first local government acts came into force in Sweden in 1863, the City of Stockholm was one of the then 89 cities of Sweden. A first city council was elected. The area roughly corresponded with today's Innerstaden. Large areas were annexed in 1913, 1916 and 1949. The city was outside Stockholm County until 1968, having its own governor. The local government reform of 1971 made Stockholm a unitary municipality like all others in the country.

Geography

Geographically, the City of Stockholm comprises the central part of the capital (Innerstaden or Stockholm City Centre) as well as the southern and western suburban parts (Söderort or South Stockholm and Västerort or West Stockholm respectively). Of the municipal population, all but 200 people are considered living in the Stockholm urban area, a tätort further extending into ten other municipalities.

Demography

Population development

Education

The share of highly educated persons, according to Statistics Sweden's definition: persons with post-secondary education that is three years or longer, is 42.4% (national average: 27.0%).

Residents with a foreign background

On the 31 of December 2017 the number of people with a foreign background (persons born outside of Sweden or with two parents born outside of Sweden) was 311,401, or 32.79% of the population (949,761 on the 31 of December 2017). On the 31 of December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was (per the same definition) 189 938, or 25.05% of the population (758,148 on the 31 of December 2002). On 31 December 2017 there were 949,761 residents in Stockholm, of which 234,703 people (24.71%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden.

Country of birth
31 December 2019
1	Sweden	725,365
2	European Union: Other countries	&&&&&&&&&&035177.&&&&&035,177
3	Asia: Other countries	0Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ","..Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".38,998
4	Africa: Other countries	20,832
5	Iraq	16,448
6	Finland	16,238
7	South America	15,788
8	Iran	12,390
9	Poland	11,830
10	North America	8,820
11	Somalia	8,178
12	Syria	8,180
13	Europe outside of the EU: other countries	7,016
14	Turkey	&&&&&&&&&&&07479.&&&&&07,479
15	Eritrea	6,528
16	Germany	5,363
17	Afghanistan	4,588
18	Thailand	4,059
19	Yugoslavia/ Yugoslavia SFR Yugoslavia/ Serbia and Montenegro	3,680
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,360
21	Norway	3,001
22	Denmark	1,746
23	Soviet Union	1,382
24	Oceania	1,350
25	Iceland	580
26	Unknown country of birth	163

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

The policy of Stockholm is to have informal town twinning with all capitals of the world, its main focus being those in northern Europe. Stockholm does not sign any formal town twinning treaties, although other cities claim to have established such treaties in the past which are still valid.

The cities claiming to have been twinned with Stockholm are:

Notable people

• Kerstin Abram-Nilsson (1931-1998), artist, debater, and social activist

See also

In Spanish: Municipio de Estocolmo para niños